So I was just telling my Girlfriend at work that my hand was tired from addressing my invitations over the weekend and she looked at me like I was crazy. I asked her what was wrong and she said to me “You’re HAND addressing the invitations, you aren’t taking them to the printer or having someone who does calligraphy do it, you cheaped out?”

I was stunned, didn’t really know what to say, every wedding invitation that I have ever received was hand addressed, so it got me wondering DID I cheap out? Should I have done something different?

I really can’t worry about it now, because they are already stamped and addressed and I am not re-buying stamps just for some fancy addressed invitation, I am just wondering how many brides hand address their invites vs doing something…fancier?

Psshaw, no way am I paying for calligraphy. I’ll be hand-addressing. I find it kinda fun in a weird way. PS – that’s rude of your friend. I’ve never thought twice about getting a hand-addressed invitation.

Rude much? geez- I hand wrote mine and didn’t even think twice about it. I didn’t like the impersonal-ness of the printer & I most certainly am not paying anyone to write out addresses for me in a pretty font. I don’t pay the least bit of attention to that stuff, and thinking back I don’t think I’ve ever received a hand-calligraphed anything much less an envelope. Much better places & ways to spend your money IMO.

I paid to have mine hand-calligraphed; however, your having handwritten your own is absolutely proper. In fact, from an etiquette perspective, it’s considered to be far preferable to having them addressed on a printer.

Handwritten (addressed) – I just can’t believe how rude people can be 🙁

I do landscape photography, so I used one of my pictures and designed it through i photo (on my mac). I was amazed at how professional they were. I would highly recommend it. They do have stock cards (rather than designing your own), which would be of the same quality. I honestly cannot believe how wonderful they turned out!

My dad did printing for a living, so I will probably have him print directly onto the envelopes if he can. I don’t care about calligraphy, hand addressed, or printed either way. Printing for me is just cheapest and easiest!

I work in creative/design, so I’m rather particular about how things look. Handwritten anything almost always look super sloppy unless it’s professional calligraphy or someone with really perfect, symmetrical writing. As such, we picked a nice, matching font and printed everything. I did handwrite my Thank You cards, but by that point, I just wanted things done and wrapped up! We had people compliment us on the envelope, so I’m happy we didn’t handwrite them.